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Words are Weapons Inside ISIS's Rhetoric of Terror
ISBN: HB: 9780300223224, Yale University Press, October 2017
256 pp., 21x14 cm
ISIS wages war not only on the battlefield but also online and in the media. Through a close examination of the words and images ISIS uses, with particular attention to the "digital caliphate" on the web, Philippe-Joseph Salazar theorizes an aestheti...
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£25,00
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Black Banners of Isis The Roots of the New Caliphate
ISBN: HB: 9780300228359, Yale University Press, September 2017
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
With tremendous speed, the Islamic State has moved from the margins to the center of life in the Middle East. Despite recent setbacks, its ability to conquer and retain huge swaths of territory has demonstrated its skillful tactical maneuvering, ambi...
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£20,00
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Instability in the Middle East Structural Causes and Uneven Modernisation 1950-2012
ISBN: PB: 9788024634272, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Middle Eastern instability is manifest externally in many ways: by crises afflicting governing regimes, the rise of political Islam, terrorism, revolution, civil war, increased migration,...
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£22,50
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Great Partition The Making of India and Pakistan (New Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780300230321, Yale University Press, July 2017
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.
This new edition of Yasmin Khan's reappraisal of the tumultuous India-Pakistan Partition features an introduction reflecting on the latest research and on ways in which commemoration of the Partition has changed, and considers the Partition in light...
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£12,99
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Future of Iran's Past Nizam al-Mulk Remembered
ISBN: HB: 9781849048200, Hurst Publishers, July 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "The Future of Iran's Past" is a critical study of the life and afterlife of Nizam al-Mulk (1018-1092), celebrated Persian vizier and stalwart figure of power and authority in medieval Islamic society. He became the de facto ru...
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£40,00
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Caliphate at War The Ideological, Organisational and Military Innovations of Islamic State
ISBN: HB: 9781849046435, Hurst Publishers, July 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The military victories of ISIS have overturned the geopolitical map of the Middle East. Media attention has focused on ISIS' savage treatment of its enemies and its ability to attract foreign fighters. However, in order to expl...
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£25,00
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Impossible Revolution Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy
ISBN: PB: 9781849048668, Hurst Publishers, July 2017
312 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Yassin al-Haj Saleh is a leftist dissident who spent sixteen years as a political prisoner and now lives in exile. He describes with precision and fervour the events that led to Syria's 2011 uprising, the metamorphosis of the p...
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£12,99
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Crossing the River Kabul An Afghan Family Odyssey
ISBN: HB: 9781612348971, Casemate, Potomac Books, June 2017
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Baryalai Popal sees his Western-educated professors at Kabul University replaced by communists. He witnesses his classmates "disappearing". The communist takeover uproots Popal from his family and home. Thus begins Crossing the River Kabul, the true...
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£23,00
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Struggle for Iraq A View from the Ground Up
ISBN: HB: 9781612348827, Casemate, Potomac Books, June 2017
536 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"The Struggle for Iraq" is a vivid personal account of the Iraqi people's fight for democracy and justice by an American political scientist. Thomas M. Renahan arrived in southern Iraq just three days before the capture of Saddam Hussein in 2003; lat...
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£28,00
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Red Star and the Crescent China and the Middle East
ISBN: PB: 9781849048217, Hurst Publishers, June 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "The Red Star and the Crescent" provides an in-depth and multi-disciplinary analysis of the evolving relationship between China and the Middle East. Despite its increasing importance, very few studies have examined this dynamic...
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£25,00
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